In sol commit 373d848 (2024-12-12), the broker does not fully release resources when handling malformed or duplicate CONNECT packets. When clients send invalid CONNECT packets - either due to repeated attempts or failed authentication - the server may silently drop the connection or send a CONNACK but fail to close the session or deallocate internal resources. This behavior allows an attacker to create numerous half-open connections that consume memory and file descriptors indefinitely, potentially triggering the Linux OOM killer and causing a denial of service.
History

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Title Resource Leak in CONNECT Packet Handling Leading to Denial of Service codepr sol: Sol: Denial of service via resource exhaustion from malformed CONNECT packets
Weaknesses CWE-772
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


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Title Resource Leak in CONNECT Packet Handling Leading to Denial of Service

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description In sol commit 373d848 (2024-12-12), the broker does not fully release resources when handling malformed or duplicate CONNECT packets. When clients send invalid CONNECT packets - either due to repeated attempts or failed authentication - the server may silently drop the connection or send a CONNACK but fail to close the session or deallocate internal resources. This behavior allows an attacker to create numerous half-open connections that consume memory and file descriptors indefinitely, potentially triggering the Linux OOM killer and causing a denial of service.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-07T19:13:19.127Z

Reserved: 2025-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-63235

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-07T19:11:41.262Z

cve-icon NVD

No data.

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-08-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-63235 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-08T02:30:04Z